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Author: Nuala O'Faolain
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Nuala O'Faolain _ A Radiant Life: The Selected
What is not challenged from outside is open to corruption from within. -This is the infinite value of a dissenting voice: that where it is not allowed to flourish, an institution- a school or an orphanage or a government or a media consensus....begins to slide toward allowing its worst energies into play.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ A Radiant Life: The Selected
States have no goodness. They suppress these villains here and promote those villains there, with no aim but self-aggrandizement.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
Did anyone ever hear of an intelligent fantasy?
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
...Though it seemed trivial, now, to describe a place as if what is was, was what I could see of it.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
They're fathers second, Jimmy said. They're men first.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
The world is wonderful, she said. All its little things. It is wonderful.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
There was nothing between the man and me - - nothing, not even liking. But because of the memory of some wholeness, or the hope of some regeneration, I would have dropped whatever I'd planned, just to go back to scratching around on his bed."
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Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The
In any case, I would prefer to read something I don't enjoy than do almost anything else. I like the act of reading itself. Following the line of something - not just the story but the rhythm, the tone, the feel of what has accumulated from before and what is beginning to impend...
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The
A bugler sounded the Last Post. Heartbreak made audible.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ Are You Somebody?: The
When I stay with the couple who are my closest friends, I hear them laughing and talking in bed, and sometimes in the middle of the night one of them goes down and makes tea, and when the clock goes off in the morning, they start again, talking to each other.
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Nuala O'Faolain _ My Dream of You
I tried not to think about it. But every so often it would burst out of me - why did he do something so unkind? What had I done to deserve it? I did believe, from my experience of life and of looking at the world, that men hated women. But there were all kinds of exceptions, and I'd have bet everything that man didn't hate me, woman.
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